No man is a hero to his own valet.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.